Children of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever

Administrator Number of posts : 19452 Age : 57

Anyone have this yet? Thoughts?

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ULTIMATUM - TOO METAL FOR WIKIPEDIA!

Metal master Number of posts : 842 Age : 34

I dont think I'll pick it up...alexi's vocals are just so godawful now.

Administrator Number of posts : 19452 Age : 57

Bad vocals? I suppose if you don't like extreme vocals they would be bad. I'm really liking this new CD. The interplay between the guitars and keyboards is awesome. At times it reminds me of early Dream Theater. The opening track "Not My Funeral" is vicious IMO!

I don't understand the hate these guy garner from metal fans.

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ULTIMATUM - TOO METAL FOR WIKIPEDIA!

Metal master Number of posts : 842 Age : 34

ultmetal wrote:: Bad vocals? I suppose if you don't like extreme vocals they would be bad. I'm really liking this new CD. The interplay between the guitars and keyboards is awesome. At times it reminds me of early Dream Theater. The opening track "Not My Funeral" is vicious IMO!

I don't understand the hate these guy garner from metal fans.

I simply just cant get into the vocalist. While I believe most of the hate comes from earlier fans who claim the shift from death growls to shrieks was them "selling out" and going "metalcore"

I might try the new album though.

Administrator Number of posts : 19452 Age : 57

I hear nothing 'core' about this album whatsoever. I'd call it power metal with thrash vocals.

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Metal master Number of posts : 842 Age : 34

ultmetal wrote:: I hear nothing 'core' about this album whatsoever. I'd call it power metal with thrash vocals.

hmmm...I like it. reminds me allot of kalmah

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37975 Age : 54

They seem to be a pretty talented bunch but the vocals irritate me.

They did release a cover of Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again" a couple of years ago that was pretty frickin' funny though.

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Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5014 Age : 55

It actually sounds like the vocals got better. I've always liked them musically, I just couldn't stand his chihuahua barking. This sounds promising!

The Prophet of Dio Number of posts : 1348 Age : 29

ultmetal wrote:: Bad vocals? I suppose if you don't like extreme vocals they would be bad. I'm really liking this new CD. The interplay between the guitars and keyboards is awesome. At times it reminds me of early Dream Theater. The opening track "Not My Funeral" is vicious IMO!

I don't understand the hate these guy garner from metal fans.

You basically summed up my thoughts on it here.

I saw them live for this tour, and at the show I thought "Meh.", but on listening to the studio versions, I felt about the same way you described above, Ult.

Also, I totally agree with FF about their cover; all their covers actually come out nicely, IMO. Especially She Is Beautiful by Andrew WK; I'd say they improved that.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9948 Age : 49

I got this album because there was nothing else interesting to pick up at the time i was at the record store.

It's a bit better than bloodrunk, but i stick with the opinion that Children of Bodom = follow the reaper, something wild and hatebreeder. If you have those, you have the entire Bodom catalogue.

The Prophet of Dio Number of posts : 1348 Age : 29

I love me some Hatecrew; I consider it basically to be an unofficial best of compilation.

Zooey Addict Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45

I love Follow The Reaper, I even have a t-shirt of it.

Metal master Number of posts : 823 Age : 36

I like this band, although Blooddrunk wasn't very good IMO. I stopped listening to them after that. This one sounds like a step in the right direction at least.

The Prophet of Dio Number of posts : 1348 Age : 29

DallasBlack wrote:: I love Follow The Reaper, I even have a t-shirt of it.

Is it this one?

Children of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever 001-028-002

If so, we have the same shirt! Woohoo! Smile

Zooey Addict Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45

holydiver97595 wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:: I love Follow The Reaper, I even have a t-shirt of it.

Is it this one?

Children of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever 001-028-002

If so, we have the same shirt! Woohoo! Smile

Exo-Kill! Number of posts : 6497 Age : 47

I had "Follow the Reaper" years ago when I lived in Colorado. It was never a real regular player for me, so I ended up getting rid of it and moving on from them into more power metal territory.

This does sound a bit promising though - so I might have to give Children of Bodom a fresh lease on my collection ...

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1095 Age : 41

I have not yet heard this album and I am a bit reluctant to pick this up. I was a big CoB fan in the past and I still love all of their albums up to and including Hatecrew.

This was one of my first euro-metal bands that I truly became a fan of and I used to play their stuff non-stop about 10 years ago. What happened was Are You Dead Yet? and from then on my interest in the band has waned down considerably.

I picked up Blooddrunk the week it was released and while I liked - it hardly managed to capture my attention in the same way as Hatebreeder or Hatecrew did. It seemed as though the band had run out of ideas...

Having said that, the song that was posted above sounds pretty good .. again nothing outstanding unlike the band's past albums - it is kinda good, kinda there but it is nowhere near as tight and in your face as the older stuff. Maybe it's just me but for me this band will never top Hatecrew.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9948 Age : 49

Their repetitive sound ends up making them boring.

Exo-Kill! Number of posts : 6497 Age : 47

I listened to that sample - and it's not half bad. Probably not gonna run out and buy it - but it's not a bad slab o metal for sure.